Denoising reuse: exploiting inter-frame motion consistency for efficient video generation

Journal article

Denoising-based diffusion models have attained impressive image synthesis; however, their applications on videos can lead to unaffordable computational costs due to the per-frame denoising operations. In pursuit of efficient video generation, we present a Diffusion Reuse MOtion (Dr. Mo) network to accelerate the video-based denoising process. Our crucial observation is that the latent representations in early denoising steps between adjacent video frames exhibit high consistencies with motion clues. Inspired by the discovery, we propose to accelerate the video denoising process by incorporating lightweight, learnable motion features. Specifically, Dr. Mo will only compute all denoising steps for base frames. For a non-based frame, Dr. Mo will propagate the pre-computed based latents of a particular step with interframe motions to obtain a fast estimation of its coarse-grained latent representation, from which the denoising will continue to obtain more sensitive and fine-grained representations. On top of this, Dr. Mo employs a meta-network named Denoising Step Selector (DSS) to dynamically determine the step to perform motion-based propagations for each frame, ensuring the correct transformation of multi-granularity visual features. Extensive evaluations on video generation and editing tasks indicate that Dr. Mo delivers widely applicable acceleration for diffusion-based video generations while effectively retaining the visual quality and style. Video generation and visualization results can be found at https://drmo-denoising-reuse.github.io.

Authors: Wang, C; Yan, S; Chen, Y; Wang, X; Wang, Y

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: IEEE
• Journal: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 8436-8451
• Publication date: 2025-03-07
• DOI: 10.1109/tcsvt.2025.3548728
• EISSN: 1558-2205
• ISSN: 1051-8215
• Language: English
• Keywords: noise reduction; diffusion models; visualization; dynamics; computational modeling; computer science; aerospace electronics; semantics; optical flow; estimation